Pulse energy enhancement in passive Q-switching operation with a class of Nd:GdxY1-xVO4 crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1289-1291

  Liu, Junhai ^a   Meng, Xianlin ^a   Shao, Zongshu ^a   Jiang, Minhua ^a   Ozygus, Bernd ^b   Ding, Adalbert ^b   Weber, Horst ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); STIMULATED EMISSION;

PULSE ENERGY;

Q SWITCHING;

EID: 0042418807     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1601673     Document Type: Article

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